Table 3.

Variables correlated with the scores obtained in the Distress Thermometer and the Spiritual Well-Being Scale for patients who were initiating chemotherapy over the COVID-19 pandemic. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2021 (n = 91).

Variables	r	p-Value (1)
Distress Thermometer
Age	−0.228	0.029 *
Pain	0.166	0.115
Religious well-being	0.022	0.834
Existential well-being	−0.292	0.005 *
Spiritual well-being	−0.259	0.013 *
Spiritual Well-Being Scale
Religious well-being subscale
Age	0.15	0.887
Pain	−0.85	0.418
Existential well-being subscale
Age	0.128	0.227
Pain	−0.2995	0.004 *
Spiritual well-being
Age	0.115	0.278
Pain	−0.333	0.002 *

⁽¹⁾ Spearman’s correlation coefficient; * p ≤ 0.05 (statistically significant).